Disabled/flat tire/car towed
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- Опубликовано: 4 мар 2024
- He deals with cerebral palsy, but when he had a flat tire, he needed help changing it, and while help was on the way, his apartment complex had his car towed. Is that legal? It’s why he turned to Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser.
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Building manager ONLY wanted his KICKBACK!!!!
The best part of this story is the camera man and reporter stepped up and changed the tire. (Which by the way, should have been done by the tow company GRATIS for the illegal tow.
no not a responssbilty of the tow company, but yes it would have been good if they had.
but did they have s key? most likely they have the ability to pick the locks. as it is easy to do.
If the property owner called for the removal, then the tow wasn't illegal despite your personal feelings about the matter.
@@ManMountainMetals Yes. This is all on the property owner/management. But, if the towing company knew the circumstances after the fact, changing the tire would have been a good show of faith before or after returning the car. It would have been a five minute job for those guys.
@@ManMountainMetals Actually it's not that simple. The laws differ from state to state but most states require the property owner to post a removal notice especially if it is a apartment complex. The tow truck driver is responsible to make sure that all ordnances are followed prior to towing.
Would've, Could've, Should've, truth is it wasn't an illegal tow. Period everything else you say it an attempt to switch the narrative. You said that it was an illegal tow, and it wasn't. No if, ands, or buts, you nuts.
He should be suing the apartment manager for breach of the ADA
I’m not sure the ADA covers this sort of thing. It’s really more of a lease dispute, where his disability would be taken into account. Especially if he was claiming damages etc.
This is a civil law suit for discrimination and not following ADA law
I agree, sue, but for towing without adequate notice. If you get a puncture on the way home and it goes flat overnight, this could result in a tow before you are even aware that there's an issue. I doubt very much if there's any ADA provision that applies to this situation.
it's amazing how companies only "do the right thing" after exposed in the media.
Trying to "save face"! The property management company is FULL OF --IT!
@@nancyomalley6286 More like trying to avoid a lawsuit
What a nice job, getting justice for this fellow. The crowning touch was actually changing the tire themselves, shows the reporter really cares to get involved in these situations.
but that tow company is crap.
That Handicap placard hangiing on his rearview mirror was a big clue if whoever ordered and towed his car had a brain and thought about it for a minute.
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT I would still hire an attorney to go after the apartment complex for ADA Violations lawsuit for millions of dollars for STUPIDITY
not worth the hassle.
The manager is getting a cut from those ransom payments! 🤬
It’s amazing what a team of lawyers can do when properly funded.
What guy! I applaud 👏 him!! He’s working with CP while some of his brethren don’t, even though they have their health! Shame on that apt. complex! Shame on them!
What do you mean by "his brethren?"
Well done for getting it back and fantastic work changing the wheel for him. Not all hero's wear capes.
It was a blessing to see KINDNESS AND HUMANITY was the final outcome!
Towing is big business in S FL, probably getting a back hander for every tow.
Notice how it’s just an honest mistake when shown in the light for all to see
apartment and condo complex get kickbacks from towing fees
Wow, such a NICE ending!
So glad the news crew helped this fellow with his tire!
Glad the news people helped out. Noone has the right to tow away a car. Even if it is broke down as cars do, what does the management want you to do? buy a new one and they become rich off the old one? Ridiculous.
Its theft of property.
if the car was completely leagle and only temporaryily non driveable, then thats cartheft.
He needs to file GRAND THEFT AUTO charges on both the tow company and landlord! 😱😁🤣🤪👍👍🇺🇸
i wish that would work!
@@110311DONTWANTCHANNE in this case it does! 😱😁🤪🤣👍👍🇺🇸
I would suggest that man hire a civil rights attorney in sue the apartment complex for violating the Ada and his civil rights
Poor guy at least he had neighbors and friends around he could've done it without them.
Thank you for helping him. 💕
In the UK it is illegal to tow a car with a disabled badge showing, or clamp it. Even if it is parked illegally they can put a ticket on the car ,but they are not allowed to move it or clamp it. If someone blocks in a disabled car the driver could be charged with false imprisonment
Giant law suit.
I'm sorry that he had to go through this and in the in he had a lot of nice people backing him up that's a great outcome 🙏
This type of harrassment is a crime...
ADA laws would given him a lawsuit against the complex. Most complex would put a tag on the window with the date on it before towing it. Giving a tenant aware of thier car will be soon.
Yet another case of predatory towing
The tow company owes him at least two hundred a day just for being denied use of the car.
plus a new battery .
The apartment complex management. They are the ones who made the call for the tow.
These are the stories I like to see.
I don't like to see stories like this, i wish stories like this never happened in the first place. The fact that this story exist is proof that the system is corrupt.
I feel for this guy! He was NOT parked illegally. . .. . I would have changed his tire for FREE and told the towing company to go F Themselves!
God bless you all for helping that gentleman 🙏 🙌
Good for you guys, especially for changing his tire.
He should own the building for this.
We invesigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.
should have sued for the loss of use and the grief.
Not supposed to just tow the car. They're supposed to put an orange sticker on it and give the owner a reasonable amount of time to fix the problem. If they don't fix it within that a lot of amount of time, THEN you call the tow truck.
Especially when it's parked in his space... You're supposed to get at least 2 days...
WHY wouldn’t his SCUMBAG co-workers change it???
It doesn’t matter who owns the car. It had a handicap placard in it. They should’ve known better. And how can they tow a car with a flat? What if it went flat over night?
Why is he living on the 2bd floor when he disabled he need a ground floor apartment
Housing sucks my friend with a bad leg got put on 3rd floor and even uses a cane they told housing before getting in
It took a total 3 years plus a Dr note being given on record for one full year before I was placed into a ground floor apt where I live. Also by that time I had already fallen down the stairs busting my tailbone and further exacerbating my hip and lumbar issues. Many apartment complexes are owned by companies/corporations many of which don’t really care about the tenants beyond collecting money…heck even IF you get a good manager the people they often answer to will veto an idea without any real regard as to why the request is made to start with.
You can sue the company….most of the time a well worded letter from a lawyer will make the corporation do what is legal and right
I think he should also sue the apartment complex and I think that they need to have proof that it was sitting there for 30 days which you know it wasn't like 5 hours sounds to me like they need a new apartment manage
Sickening. Most people really suck. At least there are some good people out there.
I see that every Sunday at Krogers. At least two handicap parking violators.
😢 Never have I heard of news men changing a tire. 🙏
way to go tow company! what a POS company. not even a jump let alone change or fix the tire. KNOWING HES DIS ABLED.
Love the Happy Ending! ❤
Good for you Patrick
Some people need to go to jail over this.
Thank God for good people!
Nice job!
The corporations that own apartment complexes are psychopathic monsters. Always.
Poor guy 😢
Thank you!
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Good job guys
Awesome!
You make the manager who made the call pay every single penny, and fire her. Then press criminal charges for grand theft of a disabled man's car. The ADA is going to have a field day with this case.
Good... New towing company. He will need a new wheel in time.
They quickly towed it away without giving any warning of a sticker on the window? Sounds like predatory behavior on the part of the owner and tow company. That’s a residential property not a business complex with a random illegally parked vehicle & I’m sure if the complex checked their resident’s records, they’d have figured out the owner of the vehicle. The fact that they claimed it had been sitting for 3 days when there are witnesses and owner who confirmed it was a mere 5 hrs since he drove it from work means they are scammers. Obviously they’re used to doing this on unsuspecting people. 😢
Do not blame the tow company. They just do what they are told. They are told to tow a specific vehicle, they do it. It's not the tow guys fault that the apartment manager is an asshole...
Good job guys!!!!!
From the damage to the rim of aluminium rim they definitely damaged the wheel more by towing it
Sue the manager.
May want the alternator and battery checked out if the battery drained while car was just sitting in a lot.
If the car has an alarm they can drain batteries over time, if a car isnt being driven often, its best to disconnect the battery. The alternator and battery are likely still good.
I took it as a hint that the battery was dead when they said they jump started him after changing the tire.
Their excuse is invalid. Every apartment takes your tag number when you move in. They took the lazy way
Marlo ! It will get better !😊
what some may not know is these chicken shix tow companies pay business owners and apt complex's a piece of the action every time a car is towed. here in san antonio tx someone can go rent an empty lot just on the outskirts of town, get a license from the county or city, go to a bank with the papers showing the license and the property and get a big loan to buy tow trucks they never had just to start getting in on the easy money. just about every hotel or motel or restaurant here has some little tow company signs out. the problem is they tow some for no reason, knowing you are either out of towners or too busy to take time to sue them in small claims court so you just pay.
Who’s the manager……. Tell us…..
I'll pay his tow fees
The manager should be fired
When the law says one thing and doing whats right isn't what the law says. Do whats right that exactly why we have a jury of peers
Flat tire and they tow your car. I can see this going sideways. Go away on vacation and a tire loses its air. Bye bye car.
Something breaks your windshield and you're arguing with the insurance company about payment. Bye bye car.
😍👍 goood job
If a car is clamped or towed in the uk with a disabled blue badge , whoever did it gets arrested very ileagal
At least they FIRED the tow co., found another one..
They break his rim or did he drive on it?
He drove on it but towing company probably did more damage to it, when towing
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🙏 is a waste of time.
😲😡🤬 lying manager....
The car should not have been towed. I do wonder why none of the neighbors could bot help change the tire?
I wonder if the towe company knew he was disabled
And did it anyway?
NOT legal! Management has to sticker the car with resonable notice to effect the repair. BTW, don't blame the tow company, they just tow what they've been told to tow.
Bobby Boucher?
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they lied about 3 day's. shitty tow company, didnt even offer to AT LEAST fix the tire or give him a jump. put that company out on blast. they got paid for nothing.
This is how “low income/state owned” housing is. My mother was also disabled living in a similar complex. I was visiting her one weekend and my plates expired. I knew they were because i had my stuff to get a new sticker the next morning after arriving and getting some rest due to driving several hours. My plates expired at 12:00 that night, by 12:30 my truck was gone. I only knew that because i went out to grab a smoke when i saw it gone. I had to pay those jackals $500 ON TOP of the sticker cost. Tow companies are the LEAST ethical companies next to title loan companies out there.
According to the ADA, it is unlawful to tow a car from a handicap parking space that has a valid handicap placard. End of story. The towing company should have refused the tow as they are completely aware of the ADA law. The towing company is more to blame than the landlord.
Landlord could be sued under americans with disabilitys act...maybe
Why didn't his neighbors change his tire???
Maybe they were working?
It sounds like it was around midnight or later, so they were likely asleep.
no tools & jack, the news van had tools and a jack
Cuz he dint axe 'em an dey don care
@@rawcado You been eating green persimmons?
Why get a new towing company? It wasn't their fault. The apartment manager called them. Isn't that what you said?
Being that this was Florida, as a Disabled person myself I'm never moving there as much as I really wanted to
Sue
Come on you could have a flat tire for 2 weeks. Or perhaps you need to wait till your next pay check, you absolutely should be allowed to keep a vehical in your spot or a spot period if you pay to rent a appartment. Almost everyone would probably agree that 30 days is a resasonable time period. Think of it as your own privet drive way, Everyone has to be in power these days, it makes them feel important in this big world.
Wait? Can i know why he is allowed to drive?
Because he is an adult who can drive safely. He probably just have to have a doctor complete an Annual medical report that must be sent to the DMV.
Why not?
Because theres absolutely NOTHING mentally wrong with him. You can get a handicap placard and still be able to drive. It gives him independence.
@@JBoo Exactly!
You don’t tow handicap cars . Period end of story .
CP isn't a disease
Actually, it's technically a group of neurological DISORDERS, which is medically a disease.
I paid a lawyer to represent me on a civil matter up to the trial, to keep me going. After I gave him the money and I gave him my evidence he worked against me. When I told him that he said he's not willing to defend me and he dragged it for a couple of months. Then he asked me and my wife to meet him in his office and it took another month. When we saw him in his office he said that he no longer wanted to defend me and I have to agree or we have to go before a judge. While the case was being dragged out there was correspondence between the two sides with which he did not want to defend our position so both sides ignored it. He broke our contract and refused to give me back the money that I paid him. He also changed my suit from personal to business so I can't represent myself. He did it out of revenge and I lost at least twenty thousand dollars plus the three thousand dollars I paid to him.
Please help me.
Isaac
Who waits 5 hours to call AAA
As a wheelchair bound person with seizure disorder, I can tell you that under stress it becomes difficult to communicate immediately after a seizure. It's called a postictal response. Cerebral Palsy, while not a typical seizure disorder is also effected by stress. Five hours to collect oneself is not unreasonable seeing that the car was in his parking spot.
Anyone who gets home at night and waits until the next morning to call AAA.
No reason for most people to change a tire in the middle of the night.
How do you know he didn't call first but it took 5 hours for AAA to show up.
He was home. Who would call right away after a day at work?
The apartment had no right to tow anyone's vehicle. It is personal property, and is tagged.
An apartment tried that w me 1x and I sat on the car and police even showed up. They didn't tow the owners car. It was unlawful.
If AAA hadn't taken 3 fricken days to turn up to change the tyre, all that wouldn't have happened!!!!
um, if he can have a seizure, he shouldn't be driving
He need to Sue that Building manager , and that Building manager need's to be Fired . SKK .
The owner(s) of ASAP towing are as much, if not more at fault. They should be jailed.
ASAP towing got called to do a job. They did the job. Why do you want to put people in jail for doing what they do?
Funny they're only sorry after the lawyer and media are involved!! disgusting treatment of a disabled but active senior glad he got his car back at no cost to him
Remember when you stood up for people?
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Oh my goodness. This video🥹. If the apartment complex would have showed equal kindness they wouldn’t be out $1000 plus.